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Nature 450, 1168-1169 (20 December 2007) | doi:10.1038/4501168a; Published online 19 December 2007
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Cancer diagnostics: One-stop shop
Jonathan W. Uhr1
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Detecting cancer early and monitoring its progress non-invasively are high on oncologists' agenda. So the design of a neat device that detects and counts cancer cells shed into the blood by tumours is a welcome advance.
A hallmark of carcinomas — malignant tumours of epithelial tissues such as breast and colon — is the invasion of neighbouring tissues at an early stage of tumour growth. This process is associated with the shedding of tumour cells into the bloodstream.
- Jonathan W. Uhr is in the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, 6000 Harry Hines Boulevard, Dallas, Texas 75390-8576, USA.
Email: jonathan.uhr@utsouthwestern.edu
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